The antics of our Federal Reserve rival those of the now disgraced IMF chief although they won’t grab as many gossip headlines. The Federal Reserve has fashioned a system that has allowed economic bubbles to surface every very few years like high school reunions. Bubbles are not normal. These are financial disequilibrium events that occur […]

Part of the success that the Federal Reserve has achieved with boosting up large banks stems from its secretive ability to forge shadow bailouts of residential and commercial real estate loans. The more secretive of the previous two comes from the commercial real estate (CRE) industry. During the height of the housing mania in the […]

Commercial real estate (CRE) is still benefitting from a large shadow bailout by the Federal Reserve. This isn’t some secretive move since the Fed actually publishes data on this and is available to anyone in the public with a desire to shuffle through the mounds of information. There has been virtually no media coverage on […]

The Federal Reserve continues to support a flawed banking system that has ignored the urgent calls for reform in spite of the greatest financial collapse since the Great Depression. Bankers and fellow politicians understand that each day that passes without serious reform allows one more day for the painful memories of 2007, 2008 and 2009 […]

The challenge most Americans are facing is first, trying to save money. If that hurdle is accomplished the next tougher question becomes where the money should be placed. The Federal Reserve by default with a negative interest rate policy has punished savers at the expense of massive debtors. The Fed for many decades since the […]